The purpose of this study is to obtain cerebrospinal fluid from healthy children already undergoing a lumbar puncture procedure at New York Presbyterian Hospital, to act as healthy controls when compared to children with late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (LINCL), a fatal neurodegenerative disease.

The primary study endpoint is the metabolic profiling of 32 samples of cerebrospinal fluid from healthy subjects, in comparison to 32 samples of CSF from children with LINCL, to determine whether there are biomarkers found in the cerebrospinal fluid that are associated with LINCL.

Biospecimen Retention: Samples Without DNA

5 mL of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) will be collected in this study at one time point.

Subjects will be healthy controls (children ages 2 years to 8 years) undergoing a lumbar puncture at New York Presbyterian Hospital, for clinical care purposes. They will be inpatients and outpatients.

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Males and females, ages 2 yrs to 8 yrs

Children already undergoing a lumbar puncture procedure for clinical or diagnostic purposes

Exclusion Criteria:

Presence of any significant neurological diseases, as judged by the co-investigators

Presence of any significant medical conditions including cancer

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01698229